Rail-fastening for metallic railway-ties.



A. BRYPOGLB. l RAIL FASTENING POR METALLIC RAILWAY TIES.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 10; 1911.

Patented May 23,*1911.

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ALEXANDER BRYFOGLE, OF'WEST EAS'TON, PENNSYLVANIA.

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To aZZ whom t may conce/m.'

Bc it known th'at I, ALEXANDER BRYFOGLE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Wvest Easton, in thecounty of Northampton and State of Pennsylvania, 4have invented an Improved Rail-Fastening for Metallic Railway-Ties, of which the following is a.

described, and illustrated in' the accompany ing drawings, in which- Figure l is a lanview of a ortionof a railway rail an a hollow meta lic tie with my improved fastening applied. F ig` l2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an end view of the tie and fastening applied thereto, together'with a side view of a portion of a railway rail. Fig. 4 is a section on the line 444 of Fig. 2.

1 indicates the body and 2 the top plate of a metal tie which is provided with upwardly projecting lugs 4 for engaging one edge 'of a rail base 5. The. rail rests fiat on the top little beyond the edge ofas ot 6 formed in the plate 2 at right angles to the rail. In

this slot 6 is arranged the lclamping plate.

The said clamping plate has at. one end a toe or projecting portion 7 whlch, in practice, overlaps the rail baseat 5, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The opposite edge or end 7b of the plate is inclined or sloped ,from theto'p downward, thus forming practically a wedgingportion adapted to engage the tie plate 2 ati-the inner end .of the slot 6 when the clamping plate is forced upward,

' which is effected by means of a wedge 8 that is insertedin avertical slot 9 formed in the clamping plate.

As shown in Figs. 1 and 4, ,the fastening 8 is preferably formed as a Cotter-pin whose upper edge is inclined to form the wedge pro er. The ends of the wedge may be turne .out if desired, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1, to prevent it becoming accidentally detached from the rail-clamping plate 7.

Specification of Letters Patent.

application led January 10, 1911. Serial No. 601,779.

2 and its basefian e 5 extends av Patented May 23, 1911'.

8 and forcing it into the slot 9, the rail 1s j tightly clamped and the plate 7 is caused to engage and wedge against the outer end of the slot in which it is arranged, so that the opposite or inner edge of the plate 7 i: pressed against the rail base and thus forces the rail laterally into firm engagement with the hooked lugs 4. In order to allow this action, the slot 6 in the tie plate'2 must be extended toward the end of the rail a short distance beneath the rail base, as shown in Fig. 2.

In assembling the parts, the tie 1 havin -been duly placed in position, the rail is lai thereon and its base Harige 5 engaged with- 'the hooked lugs 4; and then the clamping plate 7 is inserted from the end of the tie and passed upward through the slot 6 in the tie plate 2 and secured, as already described, by inserting the wedge 8.

It is apparent th'at the readily detached by reversing this operation, that is to say, by withdrawing thewedge 8, when the plate 7 will drop' down""into the tie, thus leaving the rail proper free of lobstruction on the inner side, so that it maybe readily detached from the lugs 4 and `1e-" moved from the tie.

fastening may be In practice, I prefer that the rail-clamp-i' ing plate 7 shall be arranged .on the inside of one rail and on the outside of another adjacent one in order to facilitate replacing ties.

What I claim vis The combination, with a rail base and the'.-

top of a metallic tie, provided with a lug for 'engaging the outertlangc of the base and on the inner side of the rail with a slot which extends beneath the inner base flange, of a fastening consisting of a lat plate Whose outer edge 1s inclined from top to bottom, theinner end being provided with a portion which and presses the same laterally against thev projects over the adjacent rail base, and at outside lug, sbstantiallyas described. a lower poini'l with a transverse projection adapted to engage the under side of the tie ALEXANDER BRYFOGLE' 5 plate7 and a Wedge inserted transversely Witnessesz through said plate, whereby, When the Wedge JOHN BRUNNER,

.is forced in, the plate lamps the-rail base CEAS. B.V BRUNNER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, IJ. C. v 

